Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: HON'EY – HONI-SOIT-QUI-MAL-Y-PENSE
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HON'EY, n. [hun'y; Sax. hunig; G. honig; D. honig, honing; Sw. håning; Dan. honning.]
- A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. Honey, when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color, tinged with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation. In medicine, it is useful as a detergent and aperient. It is supposed to consist of sugar, mucilage, and an acid. Encyc. Ure.
- Sweetness; lusciousness. The king hath found, / Matter against him, that forever mars / The honey of his language. Shak.
- A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one. Dryden.
HON'EY, v.t.
- To talk fondly. [Little used.] Shak.
- To sweeten.
HON'EY-BAG, n.
The stomach of a honey-bee. Grew.
HON'EY-COMB, n.
A substance of a firm, close texture, formed by bees into hexagonal cells for repositories of honey, and for the eggs which produce their young.
HON'EY-COMB-ED, a.
Having little flaws or cells. Wiseman.
HON'EY-DEW, n.
A sweet saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops like dew. It is said there are two species; one secreted from the plants, and the other deposited by a small insect called the aphis, or vine-fretter. Bees and ants are said to be fond of honey-dew. Encyc.
HON'EY-ED, a.
- Covered with honey. Milton.
- Sweet; as, honeyed words. Milton. Shak.
HON'EY-FLOW-ER, n.
A plant of the genus Melianthus.
HON'EY-GNAT, n.
An insect. Ainsworth.
HON'EY-GUIDE, n.
A species of Cuckoo, found in Africa, which will conduct persons to hives of wild honey. Encyc.
HON'EY-HAR-VEST, n.
Honey collected. Dryden.
HON'EY-LESS, a.
Destitute of honey. Shak.
HON'EY-LO-CUST, n.
A plant, the three-thorned Acacia, of the genus Gleditschia. Encyc.
HON'EY-MOON, or HON'EY-MONTH, n.
The first month after marriage. Addison.
HON'EY-MOUTH-ED, a.
Soft or smooth in speech. Shak.
HON'EY-STALK, n.
Clover-flower. Mason.
HON'EY-STONE, n. [See MELLITE.]
Covered with honeysuckles.
HON'EY-SUCK-LE, n.
The popular name of some species of a genus of plants, the Lonicera, one of which is called Woodbine.
HON'EY-SWEET, a.
Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
HON'EY-TONGU-ED, a.
Using soft speech. Shak.
HON'EY-WORT, n.
A plant of the genus Cerinthe.
HONG, n.
The name given by the Chinese to a factory of European merchants.
HON'I-ED, a. [Ill.]
See HONEYED.
HONI-SOIT-QUI-MAL-Y-PENSE, v. [Honi soit qui mal y pense; Fr.]
Shame be to him that evil thinks.